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Friday, June 27, 2014

DNA Sequencing Diagnoses Boy's Mysterious Bacterial Disease

This will become commonplace simply because here it
worked when any other method simply failed. Testing normally needs to
already know the answer. Suddenly we have a prospective protocol
that can sort out all alien systems in your body and allow you to
tackle them specifically. Odds are that the majority of humanity has
such pathogens that they would be well rid of.

Thus
been sick will no longer be the reason to do this type of test. It
will be to confirm clean blood and fluids. Add in out capability to
use four hertz pulses and we are on the way to perfect cellular
health.

Again
the whole field of health care is crashing toward a total revolution
in delivery were full good health will be easily sustained and why
not?

DNA Sequencing
Diagnoses Boy's Mysterious Bacterial Disease

This is the first
time doctors have used DNA sequencing for emergency diagnosis and
treatment.

For the first time, doctors have used
DNA-sequencing technology to diagnose and treat a boy in an
emergency. It's a big step for DNA sequencing—that the technology
is able to work so quickly, and to help a patient directly. As useful
as DNA sequencing is for research and genetic counseling, before
this, no one had ever used it to diagnose and decide
treatment for somebody with an infectious disease in a time crunch.

It will take years of more research to make
technology like this commonplace, the New York Times reports.
When that happens, however, DNA sequencing could simplify some of
medicine's trickiest infectious-disease diagnoses—ones where the
disease is rare, or ones where many diseases might give people the
same symptoms. The New York Times offered Lyme disease as
an example.

In this case, 14-year-old Joshua Osborn fell
seriously ill in the summer of 2013. Fluid collected in his brain and
he had serious seizures. Yet all of the tests doctors gave him
didn't found any traces of fungi, bacteria or viruses, the
doctors reported in The New England Journal of Medicine. So
the doctors asked Osborn's parents' permission to try an experimental
DNA test.

The test looked for bits of genetic material of
illness-causing microbes in samples taken from Osborn's blood and
spinal fluid. This contrasts to the medical genetic testing most
people are familiar with, in which scientists search for genetic
problems in a person's own DNA. In Osborn's case, doctors were
looking for bits of DNA from foreign critters. The international team
that developed the test published a paper about it this
week.

Two days after scientists received Osborn's
samples, they had a diagnosis: leptospira, a type of bacteria that
only rarely causes the symptoms Osborn was suffering. The boy's
doctors decided to treat him with penicillin. He recovered gradually
over the next seven days, his doctors reported.

Previously, genetic testing for foreign,
non-human DNA has helped scientists identify new infectious diseases,
such as new flus. But that's for research, not for treating people.
In Osborn's case, his doctors didn't even wait to confirm their
leptospira diagnosis using other tests before beginning to treat the
boy, they wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine. That's
partly because penicillin, the treatment for leptospira, has
relatively mild side effects. When Osborn's doctors weighed the
potential drawbacks of giving him penicillin against the severity of
his condition—the discussion took two hours—they decided it was
worth it. They did eventually confirm their diagnosis using other
tests.

The treatment helped Osborn recover from an
infection he had apparently had since he visited Puerto Rico in 2012,
yowch. For months, he kept going to the hospital with fevers,
headaches and other symptoms, then getting discharged again. "I
don't have any headaches anymore," he told The New York
Times. "It's almost like a rebirth."

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